Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award

The Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award, established in 1995 in honor of past LPSS Chair Marta Lange, recognizes distinction in law and political science librarianship. The award sponsor is SAGE-CQ Press. Recipients receive a plaque, $1,000, and the accolades of their peers.

The award criteria are broad and flexible, and membership in LPSS or ALA is not required. Nominators provide a letter of support and the nominee's vita, and may include additional supporting letters and documentation, as appropriate.

The success of the Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award depends on those who take the initiative to submit nominations. Please consider honoring a worthy colleague! Nomination requirements and details are available here.

If you have any questions, please contact Kelly Janousek, the Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award Committee chair.

“Brian's scholarship is impressive, beginning his research and writing about Belize when it was still British Honduras, and over time interviewing all of the former Prime Ministers of that country for biographical sketches of their lives for two editions of The Encyclopedia of Latin American History & Culture,” said award chair Kelly Janousek, librarian at California State University-Long Beach. “As a former winner of the Reference and User Services Association’s (RUSA) Louis Shores Oryx Press Award in 1999, he has stayed true to his bibliography roots with an annual article for Library Journal, ‘Best Reference Sources of the Year,’ since 1987.”